BRAINTREE – Handicap-friendly ramps and curb cuts for Route 37. Easier access to parking lots and polling places for the September and November elections. Up to date ramps for the new kindergarten at the old Monatiquot Elementary.

Those are among the issues on the agenda for the Aug. 4 meeting of the town’s commission on disabilities.

“Some are being worked on, others still need attention,” commission chairwoman Barbara Tennison said of the agenda.

The commission’s monthly session will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Town Hall’s Cahill Auditorium.

Along with highway curb cuts and building access, the group will discuss handicap-related conditions at playgrounds, plans for sheltering the disabled during emergencies, and the status of closed-caption programming on Braintree Public Access TV.

Tennison said the Route 37 ramps and curb cuts are part of a state construction project, not town road work.

She said the range of issues on next Monday’s agenda highlights one of the main points that she said the commission and other advocates for the disabled are still making – that the disabled live in all the same places that everyone else lives.

“We’re getting better at it,” she said of handicap-friendly access since the passage of the federal Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990.

As an example, she noted that Braintree police now issue a fraction as many tickets to non-handicapped drivers who park in handicap-only spaces. She said that two decades ago, those tickets produced about $20,000 for a disability commission fund. Now the fund only gets about $3,000 a year from those tickets.